Deadly drug bought online, delivered to door

Mr Munro says his son was a gentle boy who did not drink or smoke, but had admitted to using ecstasy on a couple of occasions.

"I think it's just in the last six months that he has tried it a bit more," he said.

"He wasn't doing it all the time, just once every month or once every second month.

"He doesn't hang out in his bedroom and take this drug, he doesn't go out by himself and take this drug, he was taking it in a social atmosphere with friends."

But to Mr Munro's shock his son had bought the drug in the comfort of his own bedroom from a website called Silk Road, and it is believed the drugs were mailed to the Munro's home address.

The Munro family believe the drugs James purchased were mailed to their home address.

"It came in a CD-type box that looked like it was a video games," Mr Munro said.

"You just don't have a clue. It is unfathomable that it was happening, it just blew me away."

Munro family angered at Silk Road's marketing

Since his son's death, Mr Munro has trawled through chat rooms associated with the Silk Road website looking for answers, and says he is angry at the way the sites market themselves.

"There were drug dealers on those blogs bragging they were somehow reliable suppliers, that they have an ethic of supplying good stuff and not bad stuff, of only supplying this drug and not that sort of drug," he said.

"I was absolutely stunned to see that sort of communication.

"There could be a belief I know what I'm doing, I know what I'm buying, that this person wouldn't sell me anything bad, that I can trust them and make that decision.

"[But] the fact is, most times even the dealer doesn't know what's in the drug. It's only the manufacturer."